Word: economist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herbert Hoover's Department of Commerce Building it rambles through a vast suite of offices. In the seat where Hugh Johnson once sat alone, now sits the National Industrial Recovery Board with S. Clay Williams as its chairman. Beside him sit his four horsemen: Leon C. Marshall, political economist; Arthur D. Whiteside, executive of Dun & Bradstreet; Sidney Hillman, labor executive; Walton H. Hamilton, lawyer and economist-a potent team whose days are given to wrestling with economic problems, with captains of industry and leaders of labor. Chairman Williams' administrative officer is William Averell Harriman, son of Capitalism...
From the rostrum of Duke University's expensive chapel one evening last week Dr. Broadus Mitchell, an economist of Johns Hopkins University, looked with misgiving upon an audience of fur-coated coeds. Said...
...Economist Mitchell was disturbed by what the late James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke created with his tobacco millions on the campus at Durham, N. C., he must have purpled at the thought of what "Buck" Duke had left up North. At Somerville,N. J. was Mr. Duke's 5,000-acre estate with its statues, its fountains, its 35 miles of paved road. At Newport was Mr. Duke's summer place. In Manhattan, at No. i East 78th St., was the classic marble palace "Buck" Duke built for his wife 25 years ago, with its tapestry-hung salons, winding...
...interesting bit of legislation. The question of a central bank has for the past few years held many promises for some, while it has caused some of the most voluble and noisy criticism from others. One thing is certain: the problem is not simply one for the economist. The chief problem for the political scientist is how to insure the honesty, ability, and, above all, the impartiality of the members of the central board, which board will constitute an independent group responsible only to the President...
...articles that have been written on the subject since Dickens died in 1870. That verdict was handed down in 1914 after a literary mock trial at which Gilbert Keith Chesterton was judge, George Bernard Shaw a juror. A notable dissident, however, is Stephen Leacock. This humorist and McGill University economist believes that for Drood to be murdered is too obviously unmysterious. According to Dickensian Leacock, Drood managed to escape a murderous assault by Jasper, but the choirmaster, in an opium dream, fancied he was accomplishing the murder nonetheless. Drood disappeared, bided his time, finally confronted Jasper who broke down, confessed...